BBL|05 Fantasy and Discussion Thread

[Nige]

is there 2 games on tonight??

Nup.

Just Strikers vs Stars.

Adelaide Strikers 13-man squad v Stars

Johan Botha (C) (South Africa)
Brad Hodge(VC)
Travis Head
Hamish Kingston
Ben Laughlin
Trent Lawford
Tim Ludeman
Kieron Pollard (West Indies)
Kane Richardson
Alex Ross
Craig Simmons
Shaun Tait
Adam Zampa


Melbourne Stars 13-man squad v Strikers

Cameron White (C )
Michael Beer
Jackson Bird
Scott Boland
James Faulkner
John Hastings
David Hussey
Glenn Maxwell
Kevin Pietersen (England)
Clive Rose
Tom Triffitt
Daniel Worrall
Luke Wright (England)

Posted these on the previous page.  :)

[SydneyRox]

is there 2 games on tonight??

Round 1

Strikers v Stars tonight

Sixers v Renegards tomorrow

Stars v Hurricanes Sat Night

Thunder v Heat Sun Night

[The_Captain]

is there 2 games on tonight??

Round 1

Strikers v Stars tonight

Sixers v Renegards tomorrow

Stars v Hurricanes Sat Night

Thunder v Heat Sun Night

Cool. Great game to kick it off !

[Sweetness]

Are the batting lineups released just 15mins before the start?

[Rusty00]

Are the batting lineups released just 15mins before the start?

Yeah probably at the toss.

[Nige]

Yeah, final teams at the toss.

[POK252]

Spent all afternoon finalising my side, came up with this...

Finch, White, Burns, Maddinson (Voges)
Maxwell, Faulkner (Turner)
Triffitt (Whiteman)
Bird, Beer, Bollinger, Doherty (Hogg)

Trades after Rd 1
Burns - Klinger
Maxwell/Faulkner - Henriques
Bird - Arafat

Thoughts?

[Rusty00]

Which combo do you guys prefer?

Hales, Sandhu, Laughlin
Hodge, Boyce, Rimmington

Even though I prefer either Hodge over Hales or Boyce over Sandhu, my Round 2 strategy would see Hales/Hodge on the bench and Boyce/Sandhu traded out for Arafat, so I'm thinking of going option 1 as I prefer Laughlin over Rimmington in the long term.

[nrich102]

Get rid of Boyce and go option 2.

[Nige]

Which combo do you guys prefer?

Hales, Sandhu, Laughlin
Hodge, Boyce, Rimmington

Even though I prefer either Hodge over Hales or Boyce over Sandhu, my Round 2 strategy would see Hales/Hodge on the bench and Boyce/Sandhu traded out for Arafat, so I'm thinking of going option 1 as I prefer Laughlin over Rimmington in the long term.

I'd probably lean towards option 1 just, because Hales=Hodge, Sandhu>Boyce and Rimmington>Laughlin... so imo it's pretty even.

I'm happy for people to keep sleeping on my boys Sandhu and Rimmo though.

[Nige]

So I had Doherty, but realised that since the Stars play twice, I reckon it's probably smarter to have a Stars bowler who will play both games. I'm fairly sure Scott 'The Barrel' Boland will, but I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping a bit of cash and going for Michael Beer instead. Can't justify picking Jackson Bird at top dollar.

[Rusty00]

So I had Doherty, but realised that since the Stars play twice, I reckon it's probably smarter to have a Stars bowler who will play both games. I'm fairly sure Scott 'The Barrel' Boland will, but I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping a bit of cash and going for Michael Beer instead. Can't justify picking Jackson Bird at top dollar.

I've gone Beer for cash purposes.

[KoopKicka]

Lawford and Kingston left out of Strikers XI

Told ya Nige! ;D

[Nige]

So I had Doherty, but realised that since the Stars play twice, I reckon it's probably smarter to have a Stars bowler who will play both games. I'm fairly sure Scott 'The Barrel' Boland will, but I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping a bit of cash and going for Michael Beer instead. Can't justify picking Jackson Bird at top dollar.

I've gone Beer for cash purposes.

Doing the same now. He got 0/18 off 3 in their trial match, I'll take those figures tonight.

[Nige]

Boland misses, Worrall the 12th.

Stars going in with two specialist spinners is very interesting.